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noun
- a collar or trimming, as of lace, worn about the shoulders by women, as over a low-necked waist or dress.
noun
- a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “bright.”
noun
- a wide deep capelike collar, often of lace, usually to cover up a low neckline
fem. proper name, from Old High German Berahta, Perahta, the name of a goddess, literally “the bright one,” from Old High German beraht, related to Old English beorht (see bright). Soldiers’ nickname Big Bertha for large-bore German mortar of World War I is a reference to Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, owner of Krupp steel works 1903-43.